Bikes for Children, Cars for Adults: Postwar Educational Films
January 6, 2022
Policy and culture locked Americans into climate-changing transportation modes.
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Reconsidering the Victory Bike in WWII
March 25, 2020
Surprisingly, the WWII Victory Bike program hobbled manufacturing and severely limited bicycle use.
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Las Batallas de la Bici
July 1, 2019
Bike Battles is now in translation as Las Batallas de la Bici by Katakrak Press of Pamplona, Spain.
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Finding Sidepaths
January 12, 2018
How an enterprising librarian helped me find an obscure source that uncovered new bicycle history -- and how I'm making...
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A History of Sharing the Road
September 29, 2017
Bike lanes, busways, sharrows and sidewalks do not represent encroachments on a space that is the exclusive province of the...
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Help find 1933 Nichibei Shoten (Fuji) catalog
November 22, 2016
Dear internet: I need your help. Do you know any Fuji-obsessed collectors?
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American Flyers
December 30, 2015
You may not have noticed, but it's the thirtieth anniversary of the movie American Flyers. Can this Hollywood production tell...
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Not Even Past
October 19, 2015
I saw strange marks in the asphalt: sharp gouges that looked as if dragons had clawed at the surface of...
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Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road
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- Bikes for Children, Cars for Adults: Postwar Educational Films
- Reconsidering the Victory Bike in WWII
- Las Batallas de la Bici
- Finding Sidepaths
- A History of Sharing the Road